About Sigurd Helle
Lived 1920 – 2013 (aged 92). Sigurd Helle was a Norwegian explorer.
Sigurd Gunnarson Helle (6 September 1920 – 21 April 2013) was a Norwegian topographer and explorer. He led the Sixth Norwegian Antarctic Expedition 1956–1960.
Biography Born in Hylestad Municipality on 6 September 1920, Helle graduated from the University of Oslo with the cand.mag. degree in 1948. He was a research assistant for Carl Størmer, and was hired as a geodesist at the Norwegian Polar Institute in 1949. He did field work at Jan Mayen and Svalbard, but is best known for leading the Sixth Norwegian Antarctic Expedition to Queen Maud Land in 1956–1960. He retired in 1987.
Helle was awarded the King's Medal of Merit in gold in 1989. He died on 21 April 2013.
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Norwegian topographer
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Sigurd Helle was born on 6 September 1920 in Hylestad Municipality.
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Sigurd Helle died on 21 April 2013.
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Sigurd Helle was an explorer.
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